My Personal Fitness Story
| I want to share with you my fitness
story. How I got started and where I stand today with respect to
exercise and fitness. The Early Years I have always been active and into sports since I was a kid. It’s not because I was forced to, but it’s because I have always enjoyed playing sports. A lot of this is attributable to me being introduced to individual and team sports by my teachers in public school and the education system. As kids, we viewed athletic activities as fun. We also did our best to excel in all athletic activities and be as competitive as we could be. By introducing me to exercise at an early age, it helped instill in me the need for exercise throughout my life. Something I have done consistently for over 40 years in my life. For the above reasons, I feel it’s really important that schools from the early grades encourage children to take part in athletic activities. I hate seeing schools cutting athletic funding for children or discouraging children to play sports because they are genetically too small. Beginning my workout with weights… By my early twenties, I switched my focus more to weight training. I had no real clue where to begin! So I joined a gym and I read some weight training fitness magazines wherein I stumbled upon an excellent book called the The Weider System of Bodybuilding. Using this book, I figured out a workout routine from what exercises to perform, the proper technique of each exercise to the number of sets and repetitions for each exercise. I set a goal of going to the gym 3 times per week which I continue till today since that is all the time I have and I really don’t need to go more often. I began to see results and to tweak my workouts. Over time, I continued my self-education by watching videos and learning from both pros and amateurs who train with weights. Over the last five years, I have really fine-tuned my workouts to maximize my muscle mass and strength gains. Basically I have fine tuned my workouts to meet my personal fitness and exercise goals. I also find that as I get older, I am getting stronger and more defined. I can attribute this to knowledge, perseverance and experience! I am at the point, even if I miss a workout here or there, I do not feel or notice it. I just don’t make a habit of missing too many workouts because it can result in laziness or an unwillingness to exercise. Also, my goal was never wanted to get huge like and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I just wanted to get stronger and to put on a little bit more muscle and tone. Would it have been easier with a personal trainer? Sure it would have been a lot easier if I hired a personal trainer, but by doing it all by myself, I got a sense of satisfaction that I did it all by myself and achieved the results that I desire. There are many people in the world who are willing to take the approach I did. It takes time, the desire to learn and a lot of discipline. But , I really do need some professional fitness help… On the other hand, there are many people who don’t have the time to take this approach or who wouldn’t know where to begin or feel they would just fail or quit eventually. For these people I highly recommend some form of professional personal training. You could hire a personal trainer at your local gym, but that gets to be very expensive after awhile! May I suggest Global Health and Fitness? I’ve been associated with them since 2000. They’ve been online for 12 years now – a true pioneer in the fitness field. They’ve been online for a long time because they have delivered results to their client. The reason for the success of Global Health and Fitness program is that they offer customized and affordable personal training services:
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